Application

Ensure that you meet minimum requirements outlined in the College of Fellows’ criteria. An applicant to the College of Fellows must:

Be a current SNA member;

Have a minimum of 20 years (240 months) of experience as a visual arts practitioner and/or visual arts educator.

Experience for practitioners and educators includes full-time performance in professional positions with visual arts titles and/or teaching responsibilities where you can verify that your primary work (more than 50 percent of your time) was in the practice of visual arts or instruction of students pursuing majors or sequences of study in visual arts.

Teaching visual arts courses and performing visual arts duties part-time are difficult to assess for compliance with the SNA requirement of a minimum of 20 years of professional service. Consideration of your experience in visual arts will be based on professional responsibilities that can be clearly described and verified by employers, clients or colleagues for performance and length of time. Freelance services and additional functions listed on the application as work in the profession can be considered if a minimum of 120 hours per month was devoted to visual arts activities or visual arts teaching.

2. Application Criteria

Provide clear evidence of how you have met all of the criteria for becoming a Fellow and have:

Demonstrated superior professional capability and influence,

Advanced the state of the profession,

Contributed to SNA or other professional, non-profit, not-for-profit, civic or community organisations through volunteer service and leadership, and

Served as a role model to other members of the profession, students and your community.

You are responsible for providing evidence of meeting these criteria. Submitting misleading or false information will automatically disqualify an individual from consideration.

3. Chapter Comment Form and Letter

The Chairman of your Chapter who knows you and your contributions to the visual arts profession is asked to submit a Comment Form with a letter. The form requests that the Executive Committee of the Chapter discuss your role within that Chapter privately and confidentially and give the Fellows Selection Committee comments. A signed letter from your Chapter Chairman must accompany this form and explain why the comments were made. This letter is one of the six required letters of support listed in instruction No. 4, “Letters of Support.”

Identify four individuals to write letters of support in addition to the Zone/Chapter form and letter described in instruction No. 3:

Two from individuals who are visual arts practitioners or visual arts educators. Please consider whom you ask to write these letters carefully. A letter from a journalist who heads an academic department that includes the university’s visual arts classes is likely to be questioned.

One from an individual who is not a visual arts practitioner or visual arts educator.

One letter from your Chapter Chairman that must be submitted with the Comment Form, described in detail in instruction No. 3, “Zone/Chapter Leadership Comment Form and Letter.”

No one is permitted to write a letter of support for more than one applicant per year. This includes current members of the College of Fellows and past SNA leaders.

The following cannot write a letter of support for you:

Members of the SNA National Executive.

Members of the College of Fellows Executive and Selection Committee.

SNA staff member

It is your responsibility to:

Follow up with each letter writer to ensure that he/she submits the letter written on your behalf no later than the application submission deadline.

Ensure that letter writers understand the significance of becoming a Fellow.

A good letter of support should:

Add something to your application, not repeat your resume or application. The most effective letters add content and substance to your application, expand upon an example you have used or give a more complete picture of your excellent performance.

Writers should:

know you and/or your work,

briefly explain why/how he or she is in a position to write on your behalf,

address College of Fellows criteria

your superior professional capabilities and achievements,

what you have done to advance the visual arts profession,

your service and leadership,

your reputation, integrity, how you have been a role model or how you have demonstrated the highest ethical standards.

Provide letter writers with letter of support guidelines. Every letter received on your behalf must meet all criteria listed here or the letter cannot be accepted. Letters must be:

No longer than one page.

Typed in Arial size 11 font with one-inch margins all around.

Submitted on business, organisation or personal letterhead.

Submitted by the letter writer. You cannot submit letters of support on your own behalf.

Contain an original signature or, if the letter is in PDF, an electronic signature.

Sent to directly to the SNA College of Fellows via email as a PDF attachment mailed or faxed.

Received by the SNA College of Fellows no later than the application deadline.

Use a format that approximates the application form on the Fellows web page.

Submit your application, including all six criteria, on no more than eight pages. An application longer than eight pages will not be considered.

Use Arial 11 for the eight pages you write.

If submitting via mail, print your application on white 8.5”x11” paper, one side

Put your name at the top of each page and the page number at the bottom.

Answer questions in sequence.

Begin each section with the criterion number and full name of that criterion.

Number each of the five examples required in criteria 3–6.

Do not use the same example more than once.

Include a contact with a phone number and/or email with each example if possible.

PLEASE NOTE: Members of the Selection Committee may contact people not listed as references, contacts or recommendation letter writer if they think additional information may be beneficial to the committee in making decisions on its recommendations to the SNA National Executive.

Complete all sections.

Do not submit supplementary material of any kind. Additional material, including examples, graphics, portfolios, blogs, tweet chats, videos, websites, etc., cannot be considered and will more than likely be discarded.

Meet the deadline of Tuesday, March 12, 2018, 5 p.m.

Summary Profile, Biography and Inspiration Statement

On a single page, provide threestatements about your career, two that are biographical and one on what you believe to be inspirational in the practice or teaching of visual arts, all in the third person:

35-word summary profile that distills your achievements and legacy, answering the question, “For what should I be known?” This is used in the PowerPoint presentation during the induction ceremony.

150-word formal biography to be used in the programme for the induction ceremony and in other areas where a formal bio is needed. Consider how you have advanced the visual arts profession though unusual and superior contributions. What qualifies you to be elected into the College of Fellows? What have you done to advance the profession and other professionals? What body of work, physical or anecdotal evidence will endure beyond your career and continue to demonstrate the ongoing influences of your professional contributions?

100-word inspiration statement describing what inspires you every day as a visual arts practitioner or visual arts educator and what you believe to be inspiring to others. Simply, what is it about your practice or teaching of visual arts that is inspiring? This statement can be your own personal thoughts or a quote from another source and will be read aloud.